My PS said he has narrowed the muscle cavity (an organ in which the abdomen muscle located) by 4 inches. I have imagined diastasis as two pieces of meat separated and needed to be stitched back together.
Answer: Muscle Tightening during Tummy Tuck During pregnancy, the circulating maternal hormones allow some softening of the Mom's less stretchable tissues. This in turn makes room for the baby to grow. Two types of tissue that are particularly in need of more stretching ability during pregnancy are ligaments and fascia. Both are generally non-elastic. The abdominant muscles, your 6-pack, are held together firmly down the middle by fascia. There is no gap. This changes in pregnancy and may or may not return to its pre-pregnancy state after delivery. During an abdominoplasty, what is referred to as muscle tightening, is actually the sewing closed of the gap between the two abdominal muscle columns. It is reapproximation of the abs, rather than actual tightening of the abs. The net result however, is a tighter stomach, which you no longer have to suck in, and improved waistline. Dr. B.
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Answer: Muscle Tightening during Tummy Tuck During pregnancy, the circulating maternal hormones allow some softening of the Mom's less stretchable tissues. This in turn makes room for the baby to grow. Two types of tissue that are particularly in need of more stretching ability during pregnancy are ligaments and fascia. Both are generally non-elastic. The abdominant muscles, your 6-pack, are held together firmly down the middle by fascia. There is no gap. This changes in pregnancy and may or may not return to its pre-pregnancy state after delivery. During an abdominoplasty, what is referred to as muscle tightening, is actually the sewing closed of the gap between the two abdominal muscle columns. It is reapproximation of the abs, rather than actual tightening of the abs. The net result however, is a tighter stomach, which you no longer have to suck in, and improved waistline. Dr. B.
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Answer: What is exactly muscle tightening during a tummy tuck? Thank you for your question. Due to pregnancy or weight gain the two muscles that comprise the "6-pack" become stretched and the space between them grows. Sometimes after weight loss or delivery the muscles are unable to shrink back to sit next to one another and a space remains. The muscle repair during a tummy tuck helps to tighten these muscles back to one another to create a flatter appearance. Hope that this helps.
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Answer: What is exactly muscle tightening during a tummy tuck? Thank you for your question. Due to pregnancy or weight gain the two muscles that comprise the "6-pack" become stretched and the space between them grows. Sometimes after weight loss or delivery the muscles are unable to shrink back to sit next to one another and a space remains. The muscle repair during a tummy tuck helps to tighten these muscles back to one another to create a flatter appearance. Hope that this helps.
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July 27, 2016
Answer: What is exactly muscle tightening during a tummy tuck? Thank you for the question.
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July 27, 2016
Answer: What is exactly muscle tightening during a tummy tuck? Thank you for the question.
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April 23, 2017
Answer: One workout tummy tuck After childbirth, women’s bodies might experience certain changes: some of these can be very subtle, but others can change their physiognomy completely. Women love their babies, but some also don’t like the changes to their bodies that come with pregnancy. Even more, they want to improve their bodies, so they are fitter than they were before, because they want their children to have healthy and beautiful mums.
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April 23, 2017
Answer: One workout tummy tuck After childbirth, women’s bodies might experience certain changes: some of these can be very subtle, but others can change their physiognomy completely. Women love their babies, but some also don’t like the changes to their bodies that come with pregnancy. Even more, they want to improve their bodies, so they are fitter than they were before, because they want their children to have healthy and beautiful mums.
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November 18, 2018
Answer: Muscle tightening during a tummy tuck A tummy tuck is a wonderful procedure to improve the contour of the abdomen permanently. It consists of 3 basic steps:Skin removalFat removalMuscle tighteningThe muscle traditionally tightened is the rectus abdominis muscle. The rectus abdominis muscle, also known as the "abdominals or abs," is a paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen. There are two parallel muscles, separated by a midline band of connective tissue called the linea alba. It extends from the pubic bone inferiorly, to the xiphoid process and costal cartilages of ribs V to VII superiorly. It is a wide muscle, about the width of a man's tie and is one of 3 layers of muscles of the anterior abdominal wall.During pregnancy the rectus muscle is stretched. Normally, the paired muscle is "kissing" in the midline, but with the increase in volume inside of the abdomen, the muscle separates and leaves a gap in the middle. This is called a diastasis recti. This gap can be quite wide and the only way to repair this defect is to surgically bring the muscles back together again with a very strong suture. Exercise will not correct this separation. Other factors that contribute to forming a diastasis recti are rapid weight gain and loss, surgery that transects or cuts the muscle (i.e. C-section, hysterectomy, weight loss surgery). The repair of the diastasis is a major portion of a tummy tuck procedure and is the reason that a woman must be finished with child bearing before undergoing this procedure. If a pregnancy would occur after a tummy tuck, the muscles would again be stretched out, but always in a different and unusual pattern that CANNOT be fixed with another procedure. We, as surgeons want this procedure to be permanent one time operation!Good Luck!
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November 18, 2018
Answer: Muscle tightening during a tummy tuck A tummy tuck is a wonderful procedure to improve the contour of the abdomen permanently. It consists of 3 basic steps:Skin removalFat removalMuscle tighteningThe muscle traditionally tightened is the rectus abdominis muscle. The rectus abdominis muscle, also known as the "abdominals or abs," is a paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen. There are two parallel muscles, separated by a midline band of connective tissue called the linea alba. It extends from the pubic bone inferiorly, to the xiphoid process and costal cartilages of ribs V to VII superiorly. It is a wide muscle, about the width of a man's tie and is one of 3 layers of muscles of the anterior abdominal wall.During pregnancy the rectus muscle is stretched. Normally, the paired muscle is "kissing" in the midline, but with the increase in volume inside of the abdomen, the muscle separates and leaves a gap in the middle. This is called a diastasis recti. This gap can be quite wide and the only way to repair this defect is to surgically bring the muscles back together again with a very strong suture. Exercise will not correct this separation. Other factors that contribute to forming a diastasis recti are rapid weight gain and loss, surgery that transects or cuts the muscle (i.e. C-section, hysterectomy, weight loss surgery). The repair of the diastasis is a major portion of a tummy tuck procedure and is the reason that a woman must be finished with child bearing before undergoing this procedure. If a pregnancy would occur after a tummy tuck, the muscles would again be stretched out, but always in a different and unusual pattern that CANNOT be fixed with another procedure. We, as surgeons want this procedure to be permanent one time operation!Good Luck!
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